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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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Equal Man Property Right Said
The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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